A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Short Stories of Primo Levi (Hardcover) by Primo Levi, Ms. Ann Goldstein, Alessandra Bastagli

from kcshankd

Amazing book of stories from an author best known for surviving Auschwitz. They are are short, only a few pages and range widely, including science fiction, satire, mountaineering, and a great story populated by fictional characters.

from pokarekareana

Having left the Holocaust behind, Levi has happened upon a world of unlikely, unexpected adventures in this collection of short stories. The stories are as scintillating, as memorable as Primo Levi's memoirs. I'd recommend this to anyone who likes short stories, in short!

from yourotherleft

A Tranquil Star is a collection of some of Primo Levi's unpublished or lesser known short works. Having only read a bit of Levi's more notable Holocaust-related writing, I was surprised at these clever and occasionally downright funny pieces of fiction with a satirical bent. The stories in this c...

from suesbooks

These short stories were well written, diverse, and interesting. However, I got the most out of them while I was reading them and do not expect them to stay with me, as other writing of Primo Levi has.

from Narshkite

I love Levi's writing, (he writes with the no nonsense precision of the chemist he was) and was excited to read work not focused on his time in Auschwitz. There was some good work here, but there was a lot that felt (and some definitely was) unfinished, fragmentary or at least unrealized. I under...